PHILUS. 



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are relatively broader at the base, narrower in tlie middle and 

 more? distinctly costate above. 



Length 20 ; breadth 5 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon (in coll. Oherthilr). 



Genus PHILUS. 



Philus, Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) ii, p. 110 (1853) ; Lacord. 

 Geji. Coleopt. viii, p. 159 (1869). 



Type, P. antennatus, Gyllenh., a species from China. 



Range. China, Northern India and Malay Peninsula. 



Mesouotum with a stridulatory area, which is divided by a 

 median line or groove. lu other respects the eenus agrees with 

 Doesus, Pasc. The species as a rule are somewhat larger than 

 those of the latter genus and have the lateral margins of the 

 prothoras fairly well-developed. Bat the single species that 

 occurs in India is smaller and narrower than the others and ha& 

 no trace of a lateral margin to the prothorax. 



53. Philus globulicollis, Tho7ns. Essai Classif. Ceramh. p. 298 (18G1). 



(S . Head, prothorax and base of elytra reddish-testaceous, the 

 rest of the body and elytra yellowish-testaceous or fulvous in 

 colour ; covered above with a very short pale tawny pubescence ; 

 the underside sparsely pubescent. Head closely punctate. Antennae- 

 about one-fifth longer than the body ; the joints from the third 

 to the tenth acutely augulate at the apex 

 on the anterior side, the third and fourth 

 somewhat less acutely so than the others. 

 Prothorax slightly transverse, subcylindrical, 

 a little rounded at the middle of each side 

 and without lateral margins ; the notum very 

 closely punctured at the sides, somewhat 

 less closely in the middle. Elyti-a densely 

 punctured, much broader than the prothorax 

 and three times as long as broad ; each with 

 two very feebly raised dorsal lines. Hind 

 femora and hind coxae with a channel and 

 thick fringe of hairs beneath ; middle femora 

 with a short channel and thick fringe of hairs 

 near the base ; the front femora flattened or 

 slightly concave beneath, with a sparse fringe 

 of hairs at each side. Third joint of tarsi 

 cleft to the middle. Last ventral segment 

 truncate at the apex. 

 2 • Like the male in form ; the antennae slender, not reaching 

 past the middle of the elytra ; the femora not channelled nor 

 fringed with hairs beneath ; the last ventral segment rounded at 

 the apex. 



Length 21-22 ; breadth 5^ mm. 

 Hab. Northern India. 



Fig. 2\.—PlHlugfflo- 

 hiilicollis, Thorns., (j". 



